1. Michiko Yusa gives us a
translation of this address in her biography of Nishida (Yusa 2002,
314–18).

2. Nishida’s original model
is twofold: First, Richard Dedekind’s infinite system which is
mirrored in any of its “proper parts,” which reflect it in
their one-to-one correspondence to it but do not contain all of its
elements. The set of positive integers, for example, is mirrored in
the equivalent set of even integers but that equivalent set does not
contain the odd integers. (See Dedekind’s Was sind und was sollen
die Zahlen.) Secondly, Josiah Royce’s adaptation of Dedekind in
his “self-representative systems,” exemplified by a
perfect map that includes a depiction of itself. (See Royce’s
Supplementary Essay in The World and the Individual.)

3. Several Japanese
interpreters of Nishida relate his predicate logic, if not his entire
philosophy, to the nature of the Japanese language, in which
“the predicate is predominant and the subject can often be
omitted” (Sakabe 2010, 13).

4. Nishida’s views find
poignant statement in an address of 1943 called “The Principles
for a New World Order,” published in NKZ XII, 426-34. See
Arisaka 1996.